Abeaham sheffield



(No Model.)

A. SHENFIBLD.

SUSPENDBRS.

No. 330,519. Patented Nov. 17, 1885. f

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ABRAHAM SHENFIELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

.SUSPENDERS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 330,519, dated November 1'7, 1885. Application filed September 11, 1885. Serial No. 176,758. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM SHENFIELD, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of suspenders it is usual to unite the main straps together at the back by a clip-piece, said main straps diverging from the clip-piece, andto employ suspenderends united by a loop or head-piece, there being a metal frame or ring between the clippiece and the head-piece of the suspenderends.

My present invention is especially available with suspenderends made of flat braided cords, as represented in my Patents Nos. 169,855 and 191,184; but the improvement is available with suspender-ends of leather, Woven straps, or other forms of suspenderends.

In my improvements I make use of compound clip-pieces, which perform the double duty of connecting together the main diverging straps of the suspender and of connecting to such main straps of the suspender the diverging suspender-ends, thereby dispensingwith the metallic ring or loop and holding in the proper relative positions the suspenderends and the main straps of the suspender. This connection is much stronger than those heretofore made use of, and the metallic ring or loop being dispensed with there is nothing to become rusty or to cut or injure the other parts of the Suspender or the clothing.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the suspender with my improved clip. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the clip in a modified form with a portion of the straps. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent the compound clips as cut out for use. Fig. 6 represents the suspender-end of flat braid before being secured to the compound clips.

The main straps A B of the suspender are of any desired width or materials, and at O, I have represented the ordinary ends for the front ends of the suspender. The compound clips D are to be made of leather, woven linen, leather lined with linen, or any other suitable material, and I make use of a clip at each side of the suspenderstraps A B at the place where such straps come together, so

that the ends of such straps are between the two compound clips, and the parts are stitched together as usual, except that these clips are lengthened and broadened at their lower ends to receive between them the upper part of the suspender-ends E E, and such clips are secured together and to their respective straps, preferably by machine-sewing, the stitches of which pass through and through the respective parts. These clip-pieces D and the sewing perform four duties-first, they connect the straps A and B at their junction; second, they connect the straps E E firmly together; third, they connect the suspenderends E E to the straps A B and hold these parts in their proper relative positions; and, fourth, they cover up the loose ends of the respective straps to prevent the fraying out of the braid or woven straps.

If two separate compound clips D are made use of, one at each side, they should be of the general shape indicated in Fig. 3; but I prefer to make use of a web, I, to connect the respective clips D D together, such web I being integral with the compound clips, as in Fig. 5, or it extends from one of the cllps in the form of a tongue, (shown in Fig.'4,) such tongue passing beneath the opposite clip, and the parts being united by stitching, as aforesaid. This web or tongue I adds strength to the parts, and it passes in between the diverging suspender-ends E E, and these diverging suspender-ends should be made of one piece of braid, as seen in Fig. 6, the two ends of the braid being brought together at the middle of the suspender-end, so as to come beneath or between the clip-pieces D D, and the middle portion of the length of braid, as at K, will receive the strain upon the suspender, and it will be transferred to the web I and to the clip-pieces D D.

I do not claim two Suspender-straps passing through a clamping frame or plates; neither do I claim attaching the ends of the suspenderstraps together by metal plates and teeth or rivets, which plates also include the suspender-ends or form a loop for the same, as these have been used, and in some instances the two suspender-ends at the back have been made of one piece of leather or other material sewed to the suspenders.

the suspender-ends E E, substantiallyasspecified.

3. T e combination, with the suspenderstraps A B, of two suspenderends formed of one piece of fiat braid and a clip-piece of flexible material for receiving and holding the Suspender-ends and inclosing the ends of the 20 piece of braid, the parts being sewed together, substantially as set forth.

' ABRAHAM SHENFIELD.

Witnesses:

HAROLD SERRELL, WILLIAM G. MOTT. 

